Belarus’ Council of Ministers approved of the national export promotion program for 2016-2020 and a roadmap for its implementation. It is envisaged in the Decree No. 604 dated August 1, the press service of the Belarusian government informed. “The national program does not provide a detailed forecast for external trade in 2016-2020 but spells out…
As of August 15, Belarus harvested more than 6,225,700 million tons of grain, the Agriculture and Food Ministry informed. Minsk Oblast is the leader with 1.6 million tons of grain so far. Brest Oblast has harvested 1.1 million tons, Gomel Oblast and Grodno Oblast – over 1 million tons each. Mogilev Oblast has cropped 852,500…
It is necessary to create holding companies out of major light industry enterprises. Deputy Prime Minister of Belarus Vladimir Semashko gave the relevant instructions to top officials of the Belarusian light industry concern Bellegprom, the concern’s press service reported. Vladimir Semashko took part in a session of the Bellegprom management board. In his speech he…
Plans have been made to set up a Belarusian-Turkish joint venture to make soft furniture at premises of the Molodechno-based furniture maker ZAO Molodechnomebel, Ruzhena Novitskaya, Press Secretary of the Belarusian timber, woodworking, pulp and paper industry concern Bellesbumprom, reported. A delegation of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Turkish city of Inegol…
A mini thermal power plant worth $8.82 million burning locally available fuel will be built in Volkovysk (Grodno Region) at the expense of credit resources provided by the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the Energy Ministry of Belarus reported. They plan to launch the power plant by May 2018. The plan is to install…
Belarus suggests taking stepwise action to create the single pharmaceutical market in the Eurasian Economic Union, Belarus’ Prime Minister Andrei Kobyakov said when speaking at an expanded-participation meeting of the Eurasian Intergovernmental Council in Sochi. Andrei Kobyakov noted that Belarus was concerned with the lack of progress in the development of the single internal market…
Belarus and Moldova will intensify cooperation in seed production, the Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Moldova reported. The matter was discussed during a meeting between Moldova’s Minister of Agriculture and Food Industry Eduard Grama and Director General of the Research and Practical Center for Arable Farming of Belarus’ National Academy of Sciences Fyodor…